In which Ned Needleman defends the Bush-Cheney White House against the
accusation the White House threatened a process server with arrest over
his attempt to serve Vice President Cheney with a complaint filed against
him by Judicial Watch on behalf of shareholders of Halliburton.

IDB: Welcome to another episode of In Defense of
Bush. Here we have a caller named Elmer from San Diego. What sort of mud
do you want to throw at the president Elmer? I'm Ned Needleman ready and
eager to defend!

Elmer: It's not just mud about Bush, more about the Bush-Cheney
White House. I think Cheney's pulling a lot of the strings on George so I
don't want to leave him out. It seems to me that they're consistantly into
obstructing justice. Here's one little tiny example. I read here now from
the website of Judicial Watch,
an article of July 26, 2004, entitled

White House Refuses to Allow Complaint to be Lawfully
Served On Vice President Cheney

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that
investigates and prosecutes public corruption, today reported that
security staff at The White House threatened a process server with arrest
over his attempt to serve Vice President Cheney with a complaint filed
against him by Judicial Watch on behalf of shareholders of Halliburton. It
is a crime to interfere with service of process.

According to an affidavit of due diligence filed in the case, the process
server attempted to serve the complaint on the Vice President at The White
House and was told by a security officer that he would not accept
the "papers" for the Vice President. According to the process
serverís sworn statement, the security officer said that "if
I dropped them [the federal court summons and complaint], he would arrest
me." The attempted service was made on July 22, 2002.

No lawyer for Vice President Cheney has contacted Judicial Watch to accept
service on the Vice Presidentís behalf.

"We have served many a lawsuit on Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Hillary
Clinton when they were in The White House. The Clinton White House
accepted the papers. Never before have our process servers been threatened
with arrest. If this Bush-Cheney White House is serious about corporate
corruption and responsibility, it would not allow the Vice President to
improperly hide behind White House security to evade service of process in
the Halliburton securities fraud litigation, and it would not threaten the
process server with arrest," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and
General Counsel Larry Klayman.

Judicial Watch will continue to attempt service on the Vice President and
will move for appropriate sanctions if Vice President Cheney continues to
obstruct court process. Mr. Cheney is not above the law.